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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes not so. dimension here is not properly taken as "same kg" or "same m3"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform both items used in the intended manner. sword, as sword, cup as cup.
mircea_popescu: understand : if you spent your million dollars to buy knight's sword, it came with a "will not make it 20 years" guarantee. if spent same million dollars to buy china set, it came with "forever as long as your family line shall be" guarantee.
mircea_popescu: not as brittle as steel.
asciilifeform: understand, right here i have almost 40 y.o. keycaps that looks EXACTLY as when new.
BingoBoingo: Even then, rest of switch mechanism doesn't have to be ceramic. Just the keycaps. Solves problem of letter wear. Everything else can be buttjection molded whatever, as long as it is soft enough to not piss of keys.
mircea_popescu: yes, but in point of fact i write as much or more as anyone, on a kbd.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-12 03:34 trinque: anyhow I'd accept the bespokenness of key labels as a start
mircea_popescu: ie, when at the height of soviet obamacare you broke your leg and your mother made you an ad-hoc wooden contraption to fix it, she DID in fact bespoke you a traction, even if it sucked so bad as to compare negatively to african healthcare.
mircea_popescu: if "mass-produced plebeshit as minimal bar" is your criterion, then it definitionally is not bespoke. because it's not compared to you, it's compared to the mass.
asciilifeform: it means 'exactly as i want, with the mass-produced plebeshit as minimal bar'
mircea_popescu: eh, qty of one. "omfg, do you know what it means to make a planet on which snakes might evolve so as to have material FOR BUTTONS?!?!?!"
a111: Logged on 2017-09-12 03:44 asciilifeform: if you actually NEED 100s-of-wpm for something, as opposed to pissing contests in arena, dwelling on anything other than a bespoke (for YOUR hands) chorder, is lunacy.
asciilifeform: if you actually NEED 100s-of-wpm for something, as opposed to pissing contests in arena, dwelling on anything other than a bespoke (for YOUR hands) chorder, is lunacy. ☟︎
kanzure: i never promised as much
asciilifeform: if you, as i do, insist on inset-casting
trinque: anyhow I'd accept the bespokenness of key labels as a start ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2015-12-27 16:07 jurov: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/trezor-power-analysis/ as predicted by alf
BingoBoingo: And then you write off entire classes of residential structure as habitable when enough people have asked to establish a trend...
mircea_popescu: take stephen fry as a fine example. cancerous fag has been doing anti-reality nonsense since the 80s
mircea_popescu: * pete_dushenski is now known as Guest66666 >> heh
BingoBoingo: Eh, he's going through a turn as fad of the day in fake news discussions.
asciilifeform: i always pictured those as 'learn how to GET RICH FAST' etc scam variant. 'LEARN WHERE EASY GOLD IS'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: coupla GB, if represented as naked tx
asciilifeform: a whole army of folx seem to have worked very hard indeed to make this as painful as possible
mircea_popescu: as in the us it's now illegal to rape in a foreign jurisdiciton
mircea_popescu: but that works in common system, "oh, aversarial proceedings, we judge the case as is". not here. here, all the officials involved get thrown in jale and THEN!!!! the ustards who took the kids, and the ones who facilitated CAN be prosecuted
deedbot: 410951F4EED9132643015A058B46D224AE9E116C registered as rothbart.
asciilifeform: as pictured in http://trilema.com/2015/a-new-software-licensing-paradigm/#selection-131.0-135.429
mike_c: wife and two kids, if I just get a dog and sell my motorcycle I'm about as typical as they come.
spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-10#1711989 <-- OTOH, because when viewed in context it's redundant and thus useless. they could as well have designated it "tovarishch register eax" instead of simply "eax". ☝︎
mircea_popescu: phf you are familiar with "the michael moore method" yes ? as in, http://trilema.com/2012/the-imbecilitarians/#selection-191.0-209.295
phf: Wittes, who happens to be a martial arts aficionado himself, has chided Putin as a âfraudâ and a âphonyâ and is trying to call his bluff by challenging the Russian strongman to a fight in any location where Putin lacks the authority to have him arrested.
asciilifeform: the 1 useful thing intel did in its entire life, was to introduce sane asm syntax. but unixtards, as is their custom, ignored.
mircea_popescu: spyked yes, the problem of idiots being permited next to the machinery and as a result of their gefingerpoken poppencorken is an old one.
trinque curious why rm does not read a stream of "things upon which to rm" rather than taking as args
mircea_popescu: there IS such a thing as a thought primitive ; and there is such a thing as pseudo-"thought process" to be discounted out of hand for failing to correctly employ the required thought primitives and nothing else.
mircea_popescu: how about you fucking learn to think in actual thoughts as opposed to badly mangled "proxies" for thoughts!
mircea_popescu: you shouldn't HAVE glob at all. you should have "on this directory" ; not as a LIST of files but as "this directory".
trinque: in the present circumstance to have glob expansion in shell rather than in each command, gotta pass the individual files as args to the command.
trinque: well, as phf said sanity would be that you have orthogonal ops, write own macros for whatever you do 500 times a day, and can call it 8==D for all anyone cares
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-10#1711933 << keyboard meant as proxy for thoughtalphabet. i.e. if i do something 500 times on a typical day, it had better look like * and not like find . -name '*.arsefuck' | xargs etc. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: that's why the fuck cs is in math dept in the first place ; as opposed to fucking literary criticism
mircea_popescu: importing ambiguity into computer lang is ~as stupid as trying to orthogonalize natural lang.
spyked: asciilifeform yeah, but "rm -rf *" doesn't mean "all files reachable in this path". it means "expand * to arbitrarily long sausage, then pass result as args to rm".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because * as a semantic notation is part of a class that goes a*.txt too.
phf: note that plan9/rc tried actually making the last command work, rm `{du|awk '{print $1}'|grep txt} almost works as expected out of the box. (note the somewhat questionable decision to "replace" find with du, but then you have to awk out first column..)
mircea_popescu: as it is, now he's going to hack together an undesigned, ad-hoc "sane human-readable form", which is nogood.jpg and also how you get dedicated, good folk in trouble.
mircea_popescu: would actually be iunteresting, as a phuctor sort of thing. "here's the mempool pile"
asciilifeform: almost as if it isn't the EIGHTH motherfucking year of bitcoin existing
phf: there was a naggum rant on the subject, that he recompiles his kernels to make that variable as large as possible, because the behavior is stupid
mod6: <+phf> the feature has been there for a while.. i really should document all the different flags that you can pass to message listing << aha. this would be great as I know the thing does a lot of things, i can just never remember what they are :]
mircea_popescu: (everyone got ~5k credit if replaced old car. as a result ro car plant sold 1mn units of the 5k euro dacia things. NEW CARS!)
mircea_popescu: as opposed to the usual black chix code bs, which is never about any black chicks getting anything but reamed.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-09 04:40 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and yes, obviously this arrangement is a perfect match for the usg / its fiat-statist allies in south korea etcetera. because that's exactly what the socialist state proposition is, "we'll be bleeding for as long as we live and attempt to kill everyone before the air runs out". << But, bleeding is a feminist value!
mircea_popescu: ws that 2. everyone is perfect in every way (called "special" in-universe) ; meanwhile 3. because progress and pangloss' best possible world, all historical characters are definitionaly LESS than the present troop of ruminants (and see also the inflation delusion, as well discussed for instance in http://trilema.com/2017/the-day-of-failure-trilemma/#comment-122822 ) from which together it then follows and from this in turn it
mircea_popescu: and before you laugh : this is EXACTLY what they are thinking, it's not a joke, it's a statement of fact. 1. everyone has "the human right" of being here in the first place, and being free of any "rape" such as being insufficient for anything, or in any way inadequate, including being untalented, obese, you name it. 2. from the indemnity againast any inconvenience or shortcoming (called "negativity" in-universe) it then follo
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and yes, obviously this arrangement is a perfect match for the usg / its fiat-statist allies in south korea etcetera. because that's exactly what the socialist state proposition is, "we'll be bleeding for as long as we live and attempt to kill everyone before the air runs out". << But, bleeding is a feminist value! ☟︎
mircea_popescu: us ships are not for fightin'. they're, much like latina mommy-whores, for showing. if the showing dun impress you, they sure as fuck ain't lifting a foot above knee level, wtf is this, work ?!
mircea_popescu: and yes, obviously this arrangement is a perfect match for the usg / its fiat-statist allies in south korea etcetera. because that's exactly what the socialist state proposition is, "we'll be bleeding for as long as we live and attempt to kill everyone before the air runs out".
a111: Logged on 2017-06-26 20:07 asciilifeform: from earlier, lulz, 'In April 2017, an unexpected and disruptive change was made to the MIT network: the sale of historically MIT-allocated IP address ranges to external entities such as Amazon. The sale wasn't announced to the MIT community until after it had taken effect. '
a111: Logged on 2017-09-07 21:35 fromloper: Why hasn't this happened to bcrash yet? http://trilema.com/2014/the-woes-of-altcoin-or-why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrencies/#selection-73.3-79.82
mircea_popescu: "petrocheese for everyone" as a philosophical choice amirite.
asciilifeform: 'I assumed that a company as well known as Coinbase must have phone support. So I googled “coinbase phone support” and a number popped up. I gave this number to Rita. It turns out that this number was a fraud. When Rita called it, a man identified himself as a Coinbase support rep and asked her to go to a special Coinbase support website where he had Rita enter her username, password, and the confirmation code texted to her phone
BingoBoingo: http://www.thedailybeast.com/eminems-anti-trump-freestyle-is-as-flaccid-as-trumps-campaign << if archive.is crashes
ben_vulpes: as distinct from the white trash rapper
mircea_popescu: whether she conceptualizes this sexual mutilation as "i hate the man and so i bit off his penis" or "i rly LUV!!1 the man so much i... cut off his penis" is irrelevant. yes the latter is the sort of perversion (in proper terms, cognitive dissonance) "civilised" individuals tend to come up with to explain their own choices to themselves. nevertheless, a cut is a cut, it has no philic component.,
mircea_popescu: black doods simply manage to count as subpar for a larger percent of females than whites.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-07 21:24 BingoBoingo: ke into account this specific sexual targeting, be it phobic as in the case of the rapist or philic insofar as black males are imagined to be sexually insatiable. This is what black male studies scholars mean by anti-black or racist misandry, or the cumulative assertions of black male inferiority due to errant psychologies of lack, dispositions of deviance or hyperpersonality traits (e.g., hypersexuality, hypermasculinity, etc.), which r
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile from the wikipedos on what Express Scripts is: "Express Scripts Holding Company is an American Fortune 100 company. As of 2017, the company is the 22nd-largest in the United States as well as the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) organization in the United States.[1] Express Scripts had 2016 revenues of $100.752 billion.[1]" https://archive.is/LoSSk#selection-363.0-383.3
fromloper: Why hasn't this happened to bcrash yet? http://trilema.com/2014/the-woes-of-altcoin-or-why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrencies/#selection-73.3-79.82 ☟︎
BingoBoingo: ke into account this specific sexual targeting, be it phobic as in the case of the rapist or philic insofar as black males are imagined to be sexually insatiable. This is what black male studies scholars mean by anti-black or racist misandry, or the cumulative assertions of black male inferiority due to errant psychologies of lack, dispositions of deviance or hyperpersonality traits (e.g., hypersexuality, hypermasculinity, etc.), which r ☟︎
ben_vulpes: not in the slightest; it's just as stupid as the rest of the system. why expect brilliance in any one part?
mircea_popescu also appreciates the terseness as a stylistical choice. in english, it is at worst a forced mistake, by the medium, and in general a good idea.
mircea_popescu: now, forcing a point : if complex numbers are notated as a + bi, then it is a correct approach to describe a sum as x (= a + a') + y (=b + b') i rather than x' (= q + p i + r + t i) + y' (=q' + p' i + r' + t' i). the former notation would be a normatively correctly stated theorem (elements are orthogonal) whereas the latter would, while still equivalent, nevertheless be normatively incorrect (it mixes up the lemmas!).
asciilifeform: what asciilifeform refers to as 'nonorthogonal', is seen in e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-22#1588406 thread ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i think latin-gone-wild may be more on the point. sort-of like that good jewess / future balabusta of http://trilema.com/2016/black-book/ trying to get as much nazi/anything cock as possible.
mircea_popescu: and romanian has ESPECIALLY a problem with orthogonality (as a necessary drawback of its insane bond power), which is why and wherefore it ends up thinking all languages are just badly spelled romanian.
mircea_popescu: the only case where this happens is when there's in fact two language. such as in polygotism, or else argot-mainstream disjunctions. THERE you can have orthogonality in language.
mircea_popescu: then we find it impossible to talk to strangers as the first symptom.
asciilifeform: where does 'rejection of orthogonality as a possibility' come out of
mircea_popescu: but i think the point transpires, if metaphorically : the fundamental reason language even exists in any usable, useful form is the rejection of orthogonality as a possibility.
mircea_popescu: language as used by humans is actually predicated on the impossibility of orthogonality.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really, because there's no such thing as orthogonality in natural language. that's a property of a correctly constructed theorem ("let it have no overlapping lemmas") and therefore relevant in computing.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile textual tension is very much related to anti-synonymy (via http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587276 ) and to translation-difficulty as a scalar, via the mediation of something akin to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-11#1697164 : "the cardinality of the set of objects that fit the bill divided by the cardinality of the set of objects summoned". ☝︎☝︎
mircea_popescu: which brings back the sad fact of the matter : there's no such thing as a weak language ; only imbecile speakers
mircea_popescu: a fine example in that very same paragraph : "I don't expect I've done" is very much different from the "plain english" "equivalent" "I don't think I've done" : as there is no relation between expectation and reality, saying "i don't expect i've done" is a perfectly fine sendoff on a masterpiece. not same in the case of the latter
mircea_popescu: very direct measure of the power of a language -- weak languages only have van der waals links and thereby can't support complexity such as life
mircea_popescu: modesty is good and well, as an solipsitic limit for the self. it can not stand against others' telling you to make it.
PeterL: keep in mind I am just learning ada as I do this, I feel like there might be a more efficient way to do some of the things (like the type conversions)
mircea_popescu: turd, like all others. whereas the first petawatt laser IS, as a factual matter, the first such laser ever built. for all we know -- every built anywhere in the universe.
mircea_popescu: (which fraction of this via http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-27#1703771 they're not required to declare, as per "fair and balanced" pseudo"legislation" enacted by self-same pantsuit. but it'd be a fair guess half to two thirds of comcast income is entirely fake, govt gifting, putting them at a hefty 20 to 30bn loss a year from continued operations) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: yes, it's "mean", but at least it doesn;'t leave your ass flying as a kite the moment the "everyone wants to be a roman citizen" dries off.
mircea_popescu: just goes to show the libertards are actual retards. who the fucking hell picks "headcount" over "metaphysics" as a tool to bezzle, if given the choice. and they did have the choice.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo re http://qntra.net/#fn2-7835 : this is both correct and well grounded. pantsuit exists by and for a certain section of us corporatelandia ; which entirely exists of and for "job creation" as the racket through which to launder "public funds" ie fake money printed by fed on the basis of chinese indiscriminate crediting of the us foreign account.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "there seems to no actual movement by fiat concerns to compete with the ascendant" ? << was written and reads as "there seems to no actual movement by fiat concerns to compete with the ascendant No Such lAbs at this time."
mircea_popescu: wtf, what's michelle obama qualified to say ? she exists as "that guy's wife", homemaker ne ultra better homes and gardens!
asciilifeform: 'Study: Mainstream Media Acted as Trump’s Mouthpiece, Clinton’s Foe' didjaalsoknow
BingoBoingo: Well, Trilema has to get in on The Great Again lulz from time to time as well
mircea_popescu: i considered sending it as a qntra, but... in the end i judged trilema better positioned to absorb the fake newsness of it.